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Trump’s Press Secretary Admits She Was in “Sort of a Pyramid Scheme”Katie Zacharia’s long résumé includes stints as an unqualified legal commentator, an associate at a Chinese law firm, an uncredentialed general counsel, and—in her own words—a participant in “sort of a pyramid scheme.” The 41-year-old White House press secretary told Wired Thursday that she used to be an affiliate marketer for Beachbody, a…

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More Than 100 Suspicious Letters Sent to Election Officials NationwideMore than 100 letters containing an unknown white substance were mailed to election officials, state officials, and members of Congress, according to three election workers who were briefed on the investigation and spoke to Votebeat . The FBI acknowledged an investigation into the letters on Thursday, though it did not state how many letters exactly were…

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Trump’s New Press Secretary Straight-Up Admits She’s Not a LawyerThe mystery of Katie Zacharia’s legal credentials has finally been solved: She doesn’t have any. The brand-new White House press secretary appeared on the right-wing media outlet Real America’s Voice Thursday for an interview with Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec and attempted to put the whole “lawyer” thing to bed. “A lot of the…

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Texas Sued After Glitch Delays 600,000 Voter RegistrationsNearly 600,000 people in Texas had their voting registration delayed due to a computer glitch. Now state election workers are trying frantically to register them before early voting starts on Monday in one of the country’s most consequential electoral battlegrounds. A lawsuit filed by two voting rights groups, the League of Women Voters Texas and Move…

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Kimberly Guilfoyle Sued by Man She Begged to Pay Her Amex BillKimberly Guilfoyle is having a rough week. MAGA donor and former congressional candidate Eric Deters announced in a video Thursday that he had filed a defamation lawsuit against the disgraced former U.S. ambassador to Greece and her lawyers. “This might just bring down the entire Trump administration,” Deters said in the video. Deters became ensnared in…

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“She Could Barely Read”: Trump Team Trashes New Press SecretaryKatie Zacharia delivered her debut performance as White House press secretary just two days ago, but she’s already made enemies of her colleagues. The 41-year-old appeared before the White House press corps for the first time on Tuesday, whereupon she stumbled her way through a wordy briefing, took three questions, and fled out of the room after just 14…

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Trump Brags About Redoing White House in Bizarre Speech to CopsPresident Donald Trump made a speech to first responders in the Rose Garden Thursday—and spent his time talking about “reskinning” the White House. After rambling about the upcoming midterm elections and briefly thanking the first responders gathered there for lunch, the president quickly pivoted to describing his pet White House construction projects.…

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Two Women Accuse Matt Gaetz of Sex Trafficking in New LawsuitFormer Republican Representative Matt Gaetz has been sued in federal court by two women accusing him of sex trafficking. The Miami Herald reports that the women allege that Gaetz, ex-Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, and former Florida state Representative Christopher Dorworth recruited young women and supplied them with drugs for sex between…

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Republican’s Wife Tries to Win Voters With Cheap Gift CardThe wife of Michigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers is at gas stations in Detroit handing out $10 gas gift cards while begging people to vote for her husband. This is an illegal, desperate, and ironic move given that the spiking gas prices were directly caused by President Trump’s Iran war, which Rogers has supported wholeheartedly . The Michigan…

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Has Trump Put His Most Powerful Aide on The Chopping Block?White House chief of staff Susie Wiles could be facing the boot. Donald Trump has reportedly called his allies to explore potential successors for his once-irreproachable “ice maiden,” Politico reported in its Playbook newsletter Thursday. The reviews of Wiles’s performance, apparently, are not good. “She’s burned a lot of people,” a Republican operative…

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Transcript: The Blue Wave Is Coming to the States As WellThis is a lightly edited transcript of the October 14 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . Perry Bacon: Hi, I’m Perry Bacon. I’m joined by Chaz Nuttycombe. He’s the executive director of State Navigate, which does a lot of interesting work analyzing state legislators and…

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The Blue Wave Could Reshape Politics in the SouthYou can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . You can read a transcript here . The blue wave is so strong that State Navigate estimates Democrats will flip more than 400 state legislative seats across the country and win control of several state legislative houses and governorships.…

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We Now Have a List of Trump’s Ballroom Donors—and It ReeksThe donors behind President Trump’s $330 million White House Ballroom project have finally been revealed. Trump isn’t one of them, even though he pledged to cover a portion of the cost himself. The Washington Post has reported that 57 companies donated $100,000 or more to the vanity project. Some of those companies are headed by individuals who have…

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Trump’s War on Trees Is a War on the RepublicGreat men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit, according to a familiar aphorism. Lesser men, by comparison, cut down those trees for a few hours’ warmth. Rarely has a saying come to life so vividly as it did over the last few days in the nation’s capital. President Donald Trump wants to renovate a local golf course on public land in his own…

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Trump State Department in Chaos as Advisers Lose It at Each OtherTensions inside the Trump administration are heating up, and the president’s appointees are at each other’s throats. Deputy Secretary of State Chirstopher Landau and State Department special envoy Paolo Zampolli have been trading insults and allegations for nearly a year, according to messages obtained by Politico . Zampolli, a former modeling agent who…

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Minnesotans: Trump’s Raid on Ilhan Omar Will Backfire Big-TimeYou’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free . Inside Washington Minnesota leaders are decrying the raid on Representative Ilhan Omar ’s D.C. home as a blatant attack on their state ahead of the midterms. “The purpose is to animate their…

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Trump Calls Off Livestream of Firing Squad Execution After BacklashPresident Trump is backing down from plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. “I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan but, many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die,…

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Trump’s New Press Secretary Tries to Backtrack on Her China AnswerKatie Zacharia’s latest approach to handling the scandal around her boosted legal credentials involves pretending the whole thing never happened. The new White House press secretary told The New York Times Wednesday that she had misinterpreted a reporter’s question earlier this week about where she passed the bar exam. At the time, Zacharia answered :…

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Trump’s Sick Plan for Ilhan Omar ExposedPresident Donald Trump wants to build a case to strip Representative Ilhan Omar of her citizenship and deport her. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the federal government is investigating how Omar got her citizenship after she arrived in the U.S. from Somalia as a child, focusing on how her late father filled out her forms. Her Washington,…

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Trump’s Boast About Rallies Backfires as Humiliating New GOP Leaks HitEarlier this week, Donald Trump made some audacious claims. He insisted at length that his rallies are having a “tremendously positive impact” on Republicans’ chances in the midterms because it causes their support to “go up.” He also insisted costs are plummeting. But on Wednesday, the new consumer price index report demolished that claim by showing…

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